Ugliest coin

I really wonder. I don't know. I had thought it was a product of the "Korea Pugang Coins Corporation": A DPRK mint that makes many of the crown-size and 1/2 ounce silver and 1/2 ounce gold commems that are popular among some people in the market. Maybe not?

 

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This was the originally intended design for the obverse of the dollar. But oh no, political correctness vomited forth. Susie didn't have a snowball chance.

 

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The ugliest American coin ever


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Can you really get the ASE's with a Trump label? That is really cool if you can, does NGC do that?

 

Austrian 1780 Maria Theresa Thaler (modern restrike).



Would-You-Believe: Over 300,000,000 have been minted.
http://www.theresia.name/en/index.html

 

Yes you can, and they probably have something similar. ANACS has one too

 

I hope NGC has them in MS-69 ER then

 

Thanks for the reminder. As much as it pains me, I'll need one of these.

 

This is the Frank Gasparro prototype that I've seen:

I've also heard the tale of how the mint and the numismatic community tried to advocate for this design. Attractive as it is, I'm not sure I would call the choice of an actual historical figure who really influenced American culture over an allegorical depiction of Liberty a result of "political correctness." The numismatic community at the time also didn't seem to consider that the symbolism on the Liberty prototype would probably be meaningless to the wider public. Coin collectors would of course know immediately what it represented, but coin collectors also represent a significant minority of the public. How many people in 1979, or even today, would recognize a Phrygian cap? Or the reference to early coppers? The decision of Susan B. Anthony over the allegory seems more practical than "PC." Congress wanted to sell the new dollar coin and I can see where the relatively obscure imagery of the allegory would make them reconsider and choose a real historical figure instead. They probably thought the image of a real woman would also help sell it. But of course I wasn't there, so I don't know all of the details and drama that unfolded. Sadly, the entire project ended up a disaster in any case.

Anyway, here's another ugly coin. It's even called "Ugly Head Copper."

 

No the general public would not have understood the meaning of Miss Liberty. I doubt that they knew or cared who SBA was either. They hated the coin most likely because it was too easily confused with a quarter.

Coins are not struck for the amusement of coin collectors but we're still the only ones who appreciate them. The public only wonders if they're going to wear a hole in their dorko cargo shorts.

Had they planned the SBA from the beginning it may have worked with coin collectors. She was a fighter. Who doesn't like someone who fights for their rights? How about people who are pissed off?

IMO, the history of SBA was ignored from the start by coin collectors because of what we could have had and what we got. They showed us a bucket of ice cream and then gave us an apple:
"Isn't it good? It has lots of fiber."
"Yeah, bite it!"

BTW, Carter was going to sign an executive order that all military personnel be paid with SBAs. How's that for PC thuggery? Thankfully he didn't. Guess someone told him military people aren't issued little red wagons to lug sacks of SBAs around in.

I like what SBA did.
I hate the Carter quarter and always will.

 

Coins of Susan B. Anthony and Cleopatra

Yes, that Cleopatra, the seducer of Caesar and Mark Antony.

 

She probably poked their eyes out with her nose.

 

While I was for a return to Lady Liberty on the coins given a choice between that monstrosity and the SBA I would chose the SBA. I think a lot of collectors wanted it because it was Lady Liberty, but frankly it's UGLY.

 

The incuse features of the latter-day half and quarter eagles offend mine eyes.